Story as related by Dooradical. You can find his profile at www.DiscussPowerSports.com. He has been a member there for a while. His story is as follows:
As many of you know I was bating around the idea of buying knee guards for some time. I always thought to myself I have never needed them in the past, so why would I need them now. I knew however that thinking that way was naive and kind of stupid. I finally decided that I needed some. This decision was helped by the fact that in 2005 my older brother crashed into a deep ditch and shattered his knee cap. He also wrecked the rental sled too.
Well this last Christmas my wife bought me some knee guards. They aren't anything really special. They only cost $20, but they easily paid for themselves last Friday.
We decided that it had been a couple of weeks since we had taken my dad out snowmobiling with us. My dad really enjoys going, but due to his age he has a hard time keeping up with his sons. So last Friday we decided to go to Hardware Ranch in Utah. It is a great place to go and ride trails. They groom them, and there are is a lot of pretty scenery to enjoy. They even have an Elk reserve during the winter. You can go on sleigh rides right though the middle of the herd. It is pretty sweet. The only down side is this year not a lot of snow has fallen at Hardware Ranch. As a matter of fact in some placed on the trail we where riding on rocks. But non the less it was a perfect place for my dad. And the fact that there wasn't any powder deterred my brother and I from getting off the trail in a spot that my dad would have a hard time in. So all in all it worked out.
When we were getting all our gear on, I had to decide if I wanted to wear my knee guards or not... after all we were just going to be on trails so why would I need them, Right? I decided to put them on anyways. Boy am I glad I did. We got into this bowl with a steep hill climb that usually is covered nicely in snow. Don't get me wrong, there was snow there, but not much. However there was enough to have covered up a ditch that ran across the valley. I decided I wanted to go climb the steep hill. I stopped about 20 yards from the base of the hill. Then I waited for my brother to catch up to me. Once he was there I started going up the hill. As I picked up speed I all of the sudden found myself off of my sled and feeling pain in my knee, neck, and back. My knee hurt the most. It felt like I kneed a brick wall. It was a dull throbbing pain. It is hard to explain, but I knew that if I had not been wearing my knee guards that the dull throbbing pain would have been much worse. I think I probably would have ended up like my brother, and in the hospital with a shattered knee cap. I am glad I didn't.
The sled was not hurt in the accident as far as I know. It just abruptly stopped the sled, and my bodies momentum carried.
The video is hard to see exactly what happened, but I will show you anyways.
Thanks for reading and watching,
DPS
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